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The Killing

7.6/ 10

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1956

Release Year

85 min

Runtime

Crime
Thriller

Overview

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

Keywords

sniper
adultery
robbery
husband wife relationship
corruption
marriage crisis
gangster
ex-detainee
horse race
way of life
heist
femme fatale
film noir
bag of money
black and white

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Reviews(2)

7.5avg rating
John Chard

John Chard

March 14, 2019

8
8/10

This is a bad joke without a punch line. The Killing is directed by Stanley Kubrick who co-adapts to screenplay with Jim Thompson from the novel Clean Break written by Lionel White. It stars Sterling Hayden, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook Jr, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen and Coleen Gray. Music is by

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

June 20, 2023

7
7/10

Though it's Sterling Hayden who takes top billing here, it's actually Marie Windsor who steals the show as "Sherry". She is the rather money-grabbing, bullying, wife of "George" (Elisha Cook Jr). Now he works in the cashier's office at the local racetrack where "Mike" (Joe Sawyer) works behind the b

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